Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-19
ARE THEY GUILTY?
Two Wem-n Arrested for She HAiBaus
Mufder CT Frank Fsrbr0ugh Near
JoshuS, in J8Ensen County.
Gee Of Then HiS wife, the Other rs
DanGhtoT-A Dark Desc, DISCLOSING
Moriv.E CT tbs E0uIvst soxF.

Yesterday afternoon Deputy Sherins
jim Maddox and JIM Th0mGson arrested
a. thu residence Ga man u8ned OrTick IL
this city, $50 womep, Mrs. Mary Var
5rouGn and her eigo!een-Yesr- Old d&ggh-
Ger, Hosa. They rad come IN duriug the
day from the White Settlement 8 here the
officers had failed to catch them, ard
were vislIiDg their relatives
when found by the Cfiicers. Tae srres;
was based on al indictment found
by the grand jury Of Johnson county 81 q
charged the Women with bsiag accessory
70 the crime Of murder, the victim being
Frank Yarbr0Ugn, husband OF the one and
isGEer C the other, whose killing was one
u the most
COLD FLOODED AND BRUTAL AFFAIRS
the. ever h3rrihed community. AoCut
10 O'Clock On the night CT the
l6;h O. SEPTEMBER IS ne was
sleeping ca the front porch
CT his home about mile fIom tAe little
town Of Joshua in Johnson county, one
Thomas Self, brother Of YaIbrough's
wife, deliberateiy walked up to the sleep
ing man and shot him dead. The
assassin then go. on his horse and fed the
country. He mas relatives in the White
Settlement and came very near being
caught out there by couple OF
Parrant county officers shortly
after tie crime. Self wss o
young uomarried man, and II is believed
that he WAS put up to do the crime by
others, who used him in the hope that
their part in II would never come tc
hgat. He is now cut OF the state, but
may yet pay the penalty OF his Get.
SUPPOSED NsTIGAToRs.
There was besides the family Of the
murdered man cue Dr.. Sims, N aged
physician Of Joshua, present attending
HCsa YaTbrou2h, VINO was sick. when the
fatal bullet did its work. he testified
AZ the inquest to seeing Self leave the
house shortly before the report of the
pistol was he3rd, then saw him return
and again leaye. Thursday night last
this doctor was aroused by sn officer and
taken to the Cleburne jill. He had also
been indicted as Gn aaeomplice in the
murder. HIS connection with the assassi
nation as we'll o. thai q The YGrbrough
women is casCd On theory which, if true,
GisclOses & very shameful state OF ffsirs.
Il is charged thai between DR. S.mms
and both the Marlborough women there ex-
listed, snd had for some time, relations If
me most improper kiGd. TnG deceased,
s little prior to his taking Off, found GU:
the disgraceiul liaioon, and it was 10
prevent al expose by him that Self was
induced 10 commit tie deed.
rnis is the underlying cause
sctuatiug the grand jury OF Johnson
County II the Indictments against the
three, who ara believed by the community
80 guilty "a The murderer himself. Sim
is r man sixtq-oae years o. age, aud has
wife and children 81 Joshua.
TOOK IT CALMLY.
i GAZETTE man Saw the YarbrouGh
women III the sherif's Office shortly
after theft erfest. Mrs. YSrbrough is
woman CT rather homeIY features
apparently thirty-eisat Or forty years of
age. Tee girl looks several years older
thAE she is. and bol1 wore q decidedly
rustic cir. little child of lhree or four
year5 clung to the skirts of the older
womsu, too young to understand the ter
ribie cGST2e TestiG g On IS mother, or 20
retain any sorrow for it's unfortunate
father. Neither RATHER nor daughter ap-
pesred il the leaS aglGate6, but st
stoidy Y, IoUhiug straight xhead of them,
as If they We're on business of ordinary
importance. Sheriff Slipp bumanely sent
them TO hotel !or the night putting
gusrd over them, and to-day Constable
r F. Cope will take them to Cleburne.
The deceased was a farmer Who WAS
Wei liked by his neighbora, being looked
on as = very reli&ble mar and good citi.
z5n. His kill 6 was utterly uDprvvoaed,
ard j; me t5ial OF the three persons above
named SHOWS that the theory set iorth is
true, 10 doubt the proper penalty will be
Gid ant Il thG. nr-tlfr